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- 2020
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The Effects of Hierarchy on Learning and Performance in Business Experimentation
By: Sourobh Ghosh, Stefan Thomke and Hazjier Pourkhalkhali
Do senior managers help or hurt business experiments? Despite the widespread adoption of business experiments to guide strategic decision-making, we lack a scholarly understanding of what role senior managers play in firm experimentation. Using proprietary data of live... View Details
Keywords: Experimentation; Innovation; Search; New Product Development; Innovation and Invention; Organizational Design; Learning; Performance
Ghosh, Sourobh, Stefan Thomke, and Hazjier Pourkhalkhali. "The Effects of Hierarchy on Learning and Performance in Business Experimentation." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 20-081, February 2020.
- 30 Jun 2020
- What Do You Think?
Is a Business School-Industry Collaboration Needed to Attract Black Talent to Campus?
SUMMING UP Do We Need Business School Courses On Inclusion and ‘Voice’? Responses to this month’s column suggest that the issue it raised—recruitment of minority talent into business careers—was somewhat... View Details
- 01 Feb 1998
- News
C.D. Spangler, Jr.: A Leadership Role in Business and Academe
Education, where he served until his appointment as the fourteenth president of the University of North Carolina, the nation's oldest public university. A 1988 HBS Alumni Achievement Award winner, Spangler observes of his transition from View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry; photo by Ann Hawthorne
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
HBS Online Certificate Programs Offer Unique Insight Into Business
HBX course participants at ConneXt HBS Online course participants at ConneXt When Harvard Business School Online, formerly called HBX, was first conceptualized, the goal was to create a transformational View Details
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
Shaping the Way Business Does Business: HBR at 75
started soliciting reader input. As management education began to grow in popularity over the next three decades, so did HBR. The magazine began to feature new depart-ments on business topics of current... View Details
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Capturing Contemporary Latin American Business History - Creating Emerging Markets
new materials generated by the Business History Initiative’s Creating Emerging Markets project could transform research and teaching in management studies and business history in Latin America. Scholars and... View Details
- 31 Oct 2019
- News
Business Success Means Community Success in Wisconsin; GNN Roundup
of Wisconsin scholarships for nonprofit leaders to attend Social Enterprise Executive Education programs at the Harvard Business School. Global Networking Night: One night, 74 chances to connect worldwide In... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 31 Jan 2017
- Research & Ideas
Why These Business School Professors Oppose Trump's Executive Order on Immigration
interests of the United States,” and “opposes undue burden on members of our community.” As of this writing, the signatories include some 50 Nobel Laureates and more than 14,800 faculty members at US colleges and universities. Harvard View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- April 2008
- Case
The Historical Development of the Harvard Business School (A)
- 02 Sep 2002
- What Do You Think?
What Can Business Schools Do to Avoid Bad Apples?
might be taken in admissions to sort out the "bad apples," the primary responsibility of business schools is to provide a place where ethics and values can be discussed by all, rather than just those clearing some admissions... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 27 Apr 2017
- News
Helping Veterans Gain Skills to Thrive in the Business World
challenge—the business world. “I knew that if I were to pivot in my career that it had to begin at HBS.” Her decision to apply was influenced by the School’s need-blind admission policy and generous fellowship program, which has also... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Passing on knowledge at a new business program in Switzerland
Bob Gebhardt (MBA 1973) is following a long career in international business by helping to launch a business school program in Switzerland modeled after his experience at Harvard View Details
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Global Leadership Roundtables | Institute for Business in Global Society
Global Leadership Roundtables Harnessing business to address society’s greatest challenges. The goal of the Institute for Business in Global Society (BiGS) Global Leadership Roundtables is to empower View Details
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Railroads and the Transformation of Capitalism | Harvard Business School
HBS Quick Links MBA Executive Education Doctoral Programs Faculty and Research Alumni HBS Publishing Site Index HBS Home Contact Us Map/Directions Railroads: The Transformation of Capitalism Introduction Exhibit Railroads: The... View Details
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Tools & Resources | Institute for Business in Global Society
Tools & Resources Explore this page to find detailed educational resources that will inspire you to tackle society’s most pressing issues. Our resources include in-depth reports, insights from our Institute for View Details
- January 1993 (Revised October 1994)
- Case
Harvard Business School: Strategies from Inception Through World War II
By: Hugo Uyterhoeven
Uyterhoeven, Hugo. "Harvard Business School: Strategies from Inception Through World War II." Harvard Business School Case 393-102, January 1993. (Revised October 1994.)
- 2023
- Working Paper
Life After Death: A Field Experiment with Small Businesses on Information Frictions, Stigma, and Bankruptcy
By: Shai Benjamin Bernstein, Emanuele Colonnelli, Mitchell Hoffman and Benjamin Iverson
In a randomized control trial (RCT) with U.S. small businesses, we document that a large share of firms are not well-informed about bankruptcy. Many assume that bankruptcy necessarily entails the death of a business and do not know about Chapter 11 bankruptcy, where... View Details
Bernstein, Shai Benjamin, Emanuele Colonnelli, Mitchell Hoffman, and Benjamin Iverson. "Life After Death: A Field Experiment with Small Businesses on Information Frictions, Stigma, and Bankruptcy." NBER Working Paper Series, No. 30933, February 2023.
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The Business of Entertainment, Media, and Sports - Course Catalog
HBS Course Catalog The Business of Entertainment, Media, and Sports Course Number 1914 Professor Anita Elberse Fall; Q1Q2; 3.0 credits 28 Sessions Paper/Project Career Focus This course is primarily designed for students who are pursuing... View Details
- 12 Feb 2014
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